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Monday February 25, 2008
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 Not that anyone could have realistically expected things to get any better for HD-DVD, ever since Toshiba announced that they were officially dropping support of their hi-def format, but it's still a bit painful to watch manufacturers flee support like rats from a sinking ship.
Microsoft, once one of the format's strongest supporters (if only because its chief competitor, Blu-Ray, was being pushed by the same people who make the Playstation), announced over the weekend they will stop manufacturing external HD-DVD drives for the Xbox 360.
Earlier this month, the company slashed prices on their external player from $179 to $129, in the wake of Warner's pre-CES announcement that it was going strictly Blu-Ray.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has yet to announce whether they will begin manufacturing an external Blu-Ray drive.
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February 25, 2008 3:15 PM
I think you meant to write "HD DVD drives" instead of "hard drives."
February 25, 2008 3:51 PM
oop. nice catch, thanks.
February 26, 2008 11:19 AM
Yowch. Microsoft's taking it a little hard, aren't they? ;)
You know, this makes me wonder whether or not the balance would have tipped to HD-DVD's favor if Microsoft had started bundling XBox 360 elites and the Halo 3 edition versions with HD-DVD drives built in....or am I overestimating the role that consoles played in swaying studios to choose one format over the other?